Damn, Boehner said he would go to the WH tomorrow. Mistake!
Boehner never intended to agree to anything. His entire purpose is to hold the country ransom so he and his friends can keep getting their tax breaks.
What? Have you not read the above. There was an agreement with the President and Boehner and it included doing away with the tax cuts. Sheesh! The agreement was to have less brackets and lower rates per bracket and less deductions which would add revenue. It was the President, not Boehner who reneged on the deal.
Boehner never intended to agree to anything. His entire purpose is to hold the country ransom so he and his friends can keep getting their tax breaks.
LOL. The one term Marxist president Obama believes he is already the dictator of the United States. I think they should demand that he appear before Congress to explain why he is such a loser.Speaker Boehner will be speaking at 7:15 PM EDT, which is any second now, to address the President's comments made an hour or so ago. In the address by President Obama, he stated that he wanted the 4 leaders of Congess in the White House tomorrow morning and he stated that he wants them to explain to him about why we do not have an agreement.
Uh, Mr. President, you can invite the leaders, but you cannot demand. You really need to learn that Congress is a co-equal branch of government to the Executive. They do not work for you.
Whatever his motive let us hope he does not cave. But if he does he will no longer be the Speaker.Boehner never intended to agree to anything. His entire purpose is to hold the country ransom so he and his friends can keep getting their tax breaks.
It was a bad deal. And everyone knew it. Putting forth an awful deal does not entitle one to play the victim when it is rightfully rejected.
Strictly politically speaking - he has to go.
It was a bad deal. And everyone knew it. Putting forth an awful deal does not entitle one to play the victim when it is rightfully rejected.
This may be true, but he should have told the nation that the President apparently does not understand our form of government. Here is what Boehner should have said:
"President Obama apparently does not understand that the Congress is one of three co-equal branches. The Executive is also one of those co-equal branches. The Congress does not tell the President what he must do nor can the President tell us what we must do. I will be going to the White House tomorrow, not because he has incorrectly demanded us to do so, but only because we want to come to an agreement. He further demanded that we tell him why we do not have a deal. The Republican goal, this one last time, will be to see if the Democrats have decided to negotiate in good faith and will finally come to the table with their full offer. We don't believe that the President has been constructive in this agreement, but we will give him yet one more shot at it."
Why do the dems, who have created no plan, remain absolutely blameless?
The dems cannot create a plan because plans have to start in the house, which they have no control over.
As a side note, in response to the general thread, I think Boehner's move isn't going to work. He was getting a better deal out of Obama than he would be able to negotiating directly with the senate leadership. Obama had the advantage of the bully pulpit and has an interest in getting a deal done with the ability to play the mediator. The politicians in the house do not possess this ability and have a worse negotiating position politically speaking.
I'm certainly rooting for both sides to not flinch and let Aug 2nd go by the wayside without a short term or long term deal. Then we'd see after if you're right and Obama comes out on top.
Neither side wants to step up and make the difficult decisions that both know has to be made, at least not until after the election. Both sides want to try to paint the other side as being obstructionist. They have been playing political games, and will continue to do so.
Will they come to some sort of agreement before the government defaults and raises its interest payments to disastrous levels? Probably. Will they come up with a real long term solution? Possibly. Will they do so before the election? No way.
I disagree. I believe that the GOP [not all, just most] has always wanted limited government and Democrats want big government. This is not just fun and games. This is about a much bigger principle and that is what type of government should we have for the future.
President Obama and White House officials earnestly believed they were closing in on a deficit-reduction deal with only three remaining sticking points until Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) pulled the rug out from under them and walked away from the negotiating table late Friday afternoon, White House officials said Friday night.
As of Thursday, Obama and Boehner had been working on a grand bargain that would produce roughly $3 trillion in savings over 10 years, the officials confirmed. But talks broke down along three major differences: the two sides were $400 billion apart on taxes, Obama rejected a last minute demand from the GOP that the deal include a repeal of the individual mandate in healthcare reform, and the two sides were still haggling over a difference of $40 billion in cuts to Medicaid, according to the White House.
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